NFS issue (too many processes)

[Dwyane Everts_1]

All,

Not sure if this is an NFS issue or OVOW issue, but here is the problem.

OVOW is saying:

Node: mynode.mydomain.com
Message group: OS
Application: HP OSSPI
Object: osspi_procmon.sh
Severity: Warning
Text: nfssrv: proc=/usr/sbin/nfsd arg=16: Number of processes (17) more than max

"ps -ef | grep nfs" says (17 procs):

(root@mynode):/# ps -ef | grep nfs
root 981 0 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 nfskd
root 2545 1 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2554 2547 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2580 2548 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2553 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2552 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2549 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2550 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2551 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2548 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2543 1 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2547 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2555 2550 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2556 2549 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2557 2551 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2558 2552 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2559 2553 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 2560 2545 0 Jun 27 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 16
root 10375 0 0 03:00:02 ? 0:01 nfsktcpd
root 18424 15710 1 09:17:27 pts/0 0:00 grep nfs

According to "mount":

There are no mounted nfs directories at this time.

I see why OVOW is complaining, but I don't know why the OS is doing this. Any ideas?

Dwyane

[Dietmar Konermann · Accepted solution]

From the nfsd man page:

nservers
nservers is the suggested number of file system request daemons that will start. The actual number of daemons started will be one tcp daemon (to support kernel tcp threads) plus the number of udp daemons.

So 17 daemons is quite normal.

Best regards...
Dietmar.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Dwayne,

in the config file for nfsd ( /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf ) the max number of nfsd processes are set to 16.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi Dwayne,

That is the correct number of nfsd's that should be running but here is a link to a thread that describes how to stop OVOW from giving this message all the time.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=70684

HTH,

Peter

[Dwyane Everts_1]

Greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks to all!!!

Dwyane